Posted by Pam Adams on September 01, 2006 at 00:50:33 from 134.71.192.243 user PamAdams.
In Reply to: Re: Source of child characters (Was Beccles or Potter posted by PeterH on August 31, 2006 at 21:30:45:
Some 'caring' boy characters that I can think of are those in Horatio Alger's books. Ragged Dick brings Fosdick, a boy just a year or so younger into his 'home,' paying all expenses in exchange for his teaching Dick to read and write. In a later book, Dick, now an adult, adopts a match boy, and cares for him until his grandfather is found. Paul, a street merchant in Phil the Fiddler, rescues an Italian fiddling boy from abuse, and all of Alger's 'good boys' act to protect those weaker than themselves.
pam